Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-02
TELEGRAPHlC SUMMARY.
An Epitsne Of tho Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest

ing in Havana.
Three men we're killed and four
badly hurt at st. Louis ire.
The prohibition amendment was
defeated by fully $4,000 majority in
Texas.
Isaac Colby and his wife were found
murdered in their home near Lock
Haven, Pa.
Nine persons were killed and thir
teen injured by a railroad accident at
Albany, Ga.
The Ute Indians have gone en- the
warpath in Colorado, and several en-
gagements have been had with govern
ment troops,
Medical returns show that 10000
persons died from cholera in the north.
west provinces OF Germany, during
June and July.
| The tumor in the throat of the
Crown Prince of Germuny is reappear-
ing and may prove fatal this time.
Millbrooke, Graham County, Kan
sas, was almost destroyed by cy-
clone. Several persons were killed.
Three British men-of-war have been
placed on the Halifax fishing grounds
to keep American fishermen outside
the forbidden waters.
The Farmers Alliance, OF Floyd
County, Indiana, have passed resolu
tons requesting Cleveland 10 resign
the Office of President.
M. Naquet, French editor, has
been sent to prison for two months
and been fined $40 for unfairly wound
ing Menvielle in duel at Paris.
| Eleven men undertook to cross the
Ohio river in skiff at Cincinnati. A
passing steamer swamped the skiff
and three OF the men were drowned.
The Tobacco Trade National Asso-
citation has petitioned President Cleve-
land to remove the statistican for
making false report about the crop
Three persons were killed, several
fatally hurt, and many less seriously
injured by an accident in launching
the steamer VIM. HI. Wolf, at Mil
waukee.
A. collision occurred between some
white boys and negroes at Nacugodes,
Texas, in which one white and four
negroes were killed and several
wounded.
The Eastern cities are steadily filling
up with Chinese. Their quarters in
New York now resemble Chinatown in
1 San Francisco. There are 10000 in
New York.
One thousand. houses and two
churches were destroyed at Scutori,
Turkey, and two women and child
were burned to death. Thousands of
persons are homeless.
| Hiram Schoonover is under arrest
at Brownsville, Nebraska, for killing
his mother-in-law, whom he shot in
his corn field at night. He says he
mistook her for skunk.
| A premature explosion in the Bob
tail mine, near Blackhawk, Colo, re-
suited in the death OF Andrew III. Hahn
and Charles Schuline, and the serious
wounding of Russell Crosby.
J. 7. Prayer, book-keeper in the
large stationery house OF Beucheinen
& Co, at Montreal, raised $25 check
to $4,000 on Jacques Carriers bank,
had it cashed and absconded.
Alfred Krupp bequeathed $250,000
for the benefit of his employees. His
son Frederick has added $l25,000 to
the amount for the people at Essen.
The town council of Essen has voted
$4,000 for statue OF Krupp.
AT juneau, Alaska, times are very
brisk, and the mines are booming.
The Treadwell mill shipped by last
steamer $llS,000, the product of a
twenty-seven days run, and they are
now adding 100 stamps more to the
mill, and will have it completed in a
few months, and when finished it will
be the largest mill in the world.
The burning of the steamer City of
Montreal, of the Inman line, occurred
five days after she left New York. A
boat containing six passengers and
seven members OF the crew is missing.
The Inflated steamer had 400 pas
sengers on board, who were rescued by
the steamer York City. The lost
vessel was loaded with cotton and oil,
and valued at 100000.
The captain and two sailors of the
sloop Sara, wrecked in the Gulf of Cal
ifornia, were picked up after drifting
absut for eight days on the bottom of
the vessel. They sustained life by
sucking the blood of turtles which they
caught. The captains wife and chill
dren were deyoured by sharks before
his eyes. All the balance of the crew
and passengers were drowned.
AT Sitka, Alaska, the harbor is full
Of schooners and steamers seized by
the cutter Rush in Behring Seattle
American sehooners Challenge and
Lily L.. the British schooner w. P.
Sayward, and the British steamers
Annie Beck, Dolphin and Grace. Il
is reported that there are about fifteen
more on the way from Behring Sea,
which will arrive in Sitka in few
days. The United States Marshal
turned all the Indians out OF the YES
sells on the beach, without food or
money, in very severe rainstorm.
All the citizens Of Sitka got so indig-
nant about it, and raised such cry
for humanity that he was forced to
pnt'them back on their vessels again,
whore they have comfortable quarters
with plenty TO eat. Some of the In
dams put on the beach by the marshal
hold gold medals presented to them by